Infamous pharma CEO Martin Shkreli, who achieved notoriety for hiking the price of a necessary aids drug, has elaborated on his plans for the one-of-a-kind Wu-Tang Clan album in a brand new interview, stating that he may either destroy the record or hide the audio loop in a remote area.
Wu-Tang Clan had sold the record titled Once Upon a Time in Shaolin to Shkreli at auction in December for $2 million, giving up all rights to the material under the stipulation that the buyer not release the album for public consumption for an unrealistic 88 years.
During the interview with VICE, who had the chance to preview the album, Allie Conti reports: "With the Wu-Tang album playing in the background, Shkreli says he vacillates between wanting to destroy the record and dreaming of installing it in some remote place so that people have to make a spiritual quest to listen. 'I'm not just the heel of the music world,' he says. 'I want to be the world's heel.'"
Conti further reports that the album seemed "better than [Wu-Tang Clan's] last album," however she did not feel that it was worth $2 million, per say.
Recently, a few members of the rap collective spoke out, including Ghostface Killah who came right out and called Shkreli a "sh*thead," while Method Man called the whole project "f*cking stupid." Raekwon seemed to focus on the fact that 88 years is a really long time, longer than he will be on this earth.
RZA recently offered his opinion on the album, ultimately stating that Shkreli, who had recently been arrested for securities fraud, can do whatever he pleases with it, hoping that he will "do something really cool" and let the group's fans listen to it somehow.
